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CLUVERIUS COMPOSED TO THE END.
He Meets His Fate Calmly and Makes
No Confession.
A LIVELY CONTEST AT ALBANY.
BISMARCK'S ARMY BILL DEFEATED.
SAN FRANCISCO CABLE CARS BLOWN UP
The Course of the Jubilee Yacht Race.
CLUVERIUS COMPOSED TO THE END.
A LIVELY CONTEST AT ALBANY.
BISMARCK,S ARMY BILL DEFEATED.
SAN FRANCISCO CABLE CARS BLOWN UP
The Course of the Jubilee Yacht Race.



He Declares ON the Scaffold that He
Bears No Man Bn.Wiu.
RICHMOND Va, Jan. 14.-Cluverus viii be
hanged within the next hour. There IS no hope OF
the governor interfering. Ten Thousand people
are around the Jail, and about $50 inside
NEW SUIT OF CLOTHES
There may be further delay I'm the execution, as
clothier came TO the jail al IL 10 with black
suit OF clothes and is now trying IL on II it does
not 1t another suit will be brought which will, OF
course, take more time.
ALL HOPE OF RETRIEVE ABANDONED.
AT 1890 D. m. Mr.. Beverly Crllmp returned 20
the Jail from his last visit to the governor and
announced that the governor refuses to interfere.
Cluverius Dies without COnfcssin9.
RICHMOND VA, Jan. 14.-At eight minutes past
one O'Clock Cluverius was hanged He died with
out any confession, and speaking through DIR.
Hatcher, his minister, said that In this moment OF
death nearing the grave, he had no feeling OF III
will towards any man on earth. He died by stran-
gulattOn.
History Of the Case.
THE CRIME FOR WHICH CLUvERIUS DIED AND TIE
SIN WHICH LED TO 1T.
RICHMOND Jan. 14.-On the morning OF the l4th
city reservoir in the western part OF the city, in
making his usual round OF inspection, discovered
the body OF a woman i'm the reservoir He at once
not1fed the city authorities and the coroner. who
had the body taken from the water, when it was
seen that IL was young woman OF about twenty
two years OF age and quite good looking. The
it a case OF suicide and had the body removed To
the mOrgue at the city almS-house for 1dentiiica-
tion. Mr. Peter j. Burton, reporter OF the Rich
mond Dispatch, subsequently went 10 the reSer-
voir and then to the morgue, and his investiga-
tion resulted in the formulation OF a
murder theory upon ,rare cnaia a OF C circnm-
minds. A further examination OF the body dis
closed the fact that the unfortunate woman was
fa neoo Ss
OgniZed by two young ladies (the Misses DunStan>
as a friend Of theirs, Miss Fannie Lillian MadsoN,
Of King and Queen county, but who bad for some
time past been teaching school in Bath county
The coroner's inquest resulted in a verdict OF
probable murder. Detectives and police We're
circumstances that added strength TO the murder
theory. woman who had registered at the
American hotel on the 18th OF March, under
ing from the hotel and her disappear
ance and the finding OF the body about the same
time furnished the fatal clue but for which the
the so-called "Miss Merton" was at the hotel she
wrote and received several notes; but one directed
by her was never delivered, and after her depar-
ture from the hotel it was torn to pieces by the
clerk and cast into the waste basket. The scraps
OF this note and the envelope were subsequently,
served az one Of the principal links in the chain
which convicted the murderer, il being addressed
to IT ). Cfuveffus Further inquiry developed
the fact that the man was young lawyer OF King
and Queen county, and cousin OF deceased. The
discovery OF this note led to the arrest OF Cluveus
who was known TO have been In Richmond on the
18th OF March. He was found at the residence or
his aunt, Mrs Tunstall in King and Queen county,
and brought to this city. He waived a preliminary
examination, and was sent to the grand jury OF
the hustings court. He was indicted In April for
murder and his trial began at the May term OF
the court and continued for % days. Owing 10
the difficulty OF obtaining competent Jurors in
Richmond. 1t was found necessary to draw tales
men from Alexandria, and a jury was finally en-
paneled with seven RichmOnders and five AleNan-
drianS composing IT. The prisoner pleaded not
guilty, and the trial proceeded. Nearly two
hundred witnesses were examined, and, step
by step, the evidence fixed upon the prs-
oner the brand OF Seducer and murderer,
and when the able counsel on both sides had con-
cluded their efforts for and against the accused
the Jury. after but few moments consideration,
rendered verdict OF murder in the first degree.
The prisoner throughout the trial was cool and
undaunted, and his sen-poSseSsion was fruitful
theme for comment. His counsel excepted at
every possible point In the evidence and asked for
q new trial. which was refused, and Ciuverius was
sentenced to be hung on the 10th OF November.
1885, An appeal was then taken TO the supreme
court OF the state, but ii availed the prisoner
nothing but q stay OF execution for over a year,
as the court with but one dissenting voice az
nrmed the Judgment OF the lower court. He was
then re-Sentenced to be hanged on December
10th, 1886. The last reS0rt-the chief executive
was finally applied to for pardon or communication
OF sentence to life imprisonment, but the gov
ernOr, after giving the case the most colSiderate
attention, could find no reason for interfering
spited the condemned man until to-day.